Another (more recent) tradition: game night by app and phone. It's been a few years since I've been able to visit my childhood hometown and play cards with my mother and some long-time friends, but occasionally we convene by conference call as we play Skipbo on our phones/computers/iPads. We try to do it around one another's birthdays. This year we were too variously busy around my November birthday and my friend's early December one, so we waited until now, which gave the gathering a holiday feel too.
Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
12/30: 2 traditions
One tradition: stollen. Though I don't usually make it, it's something that I grew up with and like. This year I decided to give it a try, and while I was looking for recipes online, I found one that doesn't use yeast (here's the link). I didn't make it for Christmas--being under the weather as I was--but I finally felt well enough today to give it a go. It doesn't quite taste like the stollen of my memories (my mother says that I need to include cardamom next time), but it's really good.
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